Cybersecurity Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cybersecurity Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 693 668 707
Rank change year-on-year -25 +39 -93
Permanent jobs requiring a Cybersecurity Engineer 82 86 166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.15% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 57 80 89
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,250 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +17.39%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 70,239 51,739 70,521
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.92% 89.07% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 49,597 29,705 42,866
10th Percentile £26,750 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,173
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +6.63% +5.63%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cybersecurity Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cybersecurity Engineer
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +4 27 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North of England +48 19 £40,000 -38.46% 7
West Midlands +13 15 £60,000 -
Midlands -12 15 £60,000 +26.32% 6
East of England +3 14 £67,500 +12.50% 4
North West +1 13 £52,500 -19.23% 3
Yorkshire +83 5 £38,500 - 2
Scotland -57 4 £47,500 -13.64%
Wales +3 3 £65,000 +18.18%
North East - 1 £27,500 - 2
Cybersecurity Engineer
UK

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Cybersecurity Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cybersecurity Engineer in the job title.

1 82 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (41.46%) Degree
4 24 (29.27%) Analytics
5 22 (26.83%) Data Quality
5 22 (26.83%) Mentoring
5 22 (26.83%) Coaching
5 22 (26.83%) Azure
5 22 (26.83%) Data Modelling
5 22 (26.83%) Data Science
5 22 (26.83%) Red Team
5 22 (26.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 22 (26.83%) Data Engineering
6 18 (21.95%) Firewall
6 18 (21.95%) SIEM
7 16 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
8 15 (18.29%) Security Operations
9 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
9 13 (15.85%) Vulnerability Management
10 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
10 12 (14.63%) Python
10 12 (14.63%) NIST
10 12 (14.63%) Social Skills
11 11 (13.41%) Operational Technology
11 11 (13.41%) Incident Response
11 11 (13.41%) Information Security
11 11 (13.41%) Computer Science
12 10 (12.20%) SCADA
12 10 (12.20%) Penetration Testing

Cybersecurity Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (26.83%) Azure
2 7 (8.54%) AWS
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.10%) SaaS
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (3.66%) GCP
6 2 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.22%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 18 (21.95%) Firewall
2 7 (8.54%) Network Security
3 6 (7.32%) TCP/IP
4 5 (6.10%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Burp Suite
General
1 22 (26.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.88%) Finance
3 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.66%) Electronics
5 2 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 2 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (1.22%) Law
6 1 (1.22%) Military
6 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.66%) Fluent Bit
2 1 (1.22%) CSS
2 1 (1.22%) Django
2 1 (1.22%) Flask
2 1 (1.22%) HTML
2 1 (1.22%) Jinja
2 1 (1.22%) Pyramid
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.41%) Operational Technology
2 10 (12.20%) SCADA
3 7 (8.54%) Cyberattack
4 6 (7.32%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (7.32%) Security Posture
5 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.66%) NHS
6 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.44%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (2.44%) IoT
6 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.44%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.20%) Linux
1 10 (12.20%) Windows
2 6 (7.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
2 41 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (29.27%) Analytics
4 22 (26.83%) Coaching
4 22 (26.83%) Data Engineering
4 22 (26.83%) Data Modelling
4 22 (26.83%) Data Science
4 22 (26.83%) Mentoring
4 22 (26.83%) Red Team
5 18 (21.95%) SIEM
6 15 (18.29%) Security Operations
7 13 (15.85%) Vulnerability Management
8 11 (13.41%) Computer Science
8 11 (13.41%) Incident Response
8 11 (13.41%) Information Security
9 10 (12.20%) Penetration Testing
10 9 (10.98%) Identity Access Management
10 9 (10.98%) Software Engineering
11 8 (9.76%) Application Security
11 8 (9.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.63%) Python
2 7 (8.54%) Bash
3 5 (6.10%) C
3 5 (6.10%) SQL
4 3 (3.66%) C++
4 3 (3.66%) Java
4 3 (3.66%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.66%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.22%) Embedded C
5 1 (1.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 34 (41.46%) Degree
2 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
3 12 (14.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.98%) CISSP
5 7 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (6.10%) CISA
7 3 (3.66%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (3.66%) GCIA
8 2 (2.44%) CCNA
8 2 (2.44%) CCNP
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.44%) GIAC
8 2 (2.44%) SANS
9 1 (1.22%) CEH
9 1 (1.22%) CISM
9 1 (1.22%) GCFA
9 1 (1.22%) GCIH
9 1 (1.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (26.83%) Data Quality
2 16 (19.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (14.63%) NIST
4 8 (9.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (7.32%) NIST 800
5 6 (7.32%) SOC 2
6 5 (6.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.22%) GRC
7 1 (1.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (2.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.88%) Nessus
2 3 (3.66%) Fluentd
2 3 (3.66%) logstash
3 2 (2.44%) CSIRT
3 2 (2.44%) Terraform
4 1 (1.22%) CASB
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.22%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 16 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.10%) Splunk
3 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.44%) Darktrace
4 2 (2.44%) Symantec
5 1 (1.22%) Citrix
5 1 (1.22%) CrowdStrike